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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Sofia's Drawings

The Tricklock International Theatre Festival: Proudly presents an amazing theater piece from Israel - the Galilee Multicultural Theatre's production of

Sofia's Drawings

Rodey Theatre

(next to Popejoy Hall)

Tuesday January 24, 2012

8:00 pm

The
play is based on a series of drawings made by Sofia, a 16 year old
girl; Sofia made these drawings in Holland while she was hiding from the
Nazis during the war. By making use of the drawings through various
visual techniques, the play tells Sofia’s life story during that period.

Sofia
was the daughter of Clara Asscher-Pinkhof, a known children’s author.
Before Clara was sent to concentration camps and Sofia went into hiding,
they published a series of children’s stories – written by Clara and
illustrated by Sofia – together. These stories were published in the
weekly Jewish newspaper in Amsterdam. Sofia, in time, became a painter.

Efrat
Hadani, an actress, puppeteer and sculptress, and Sofia’s daughter,
acts in the play and relates her mother’s story. The play, a result of
meetings between Efrat Hadani and Pablo Ariel, the director and an actor
in the play, uses a special language and allows a meeting of three
generations of creative women. The play, which is mainly visual and
hardly uses any words, is accompanied by a translation into various
languages, allowing it to be performed in front of multi-lingual
audiences.